In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... merely employs Morality ' resolutions ' and the brothel- inmates simply fail to reappear . Even in later plays which seem partly to have absorbed the attitudes prevalent in sceptical comedy , use of the Morality structure ( involving a ...
... merely employs Morality ' resolutions ' and the brothel- inmates simply fail to reappear . Even in later plays which seem partly to have absorbed the attitudes prevalent in sceptical comedy , use of the Morality structure ( involving a ...
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... merely Mistress Anne Turner . Jacobean treated bawdry with sinister humour , and in the final scene of Women Beware ... mere " one - sided 70.
... merely Mistress Anne Turner . Jacobean treated bawdry with sinister humour , and in the final scene of Women Beware ... mere " one - sided 70.
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... merely formal piety , with no touch of human kindness . ( The Queen , who might justifiably harm Jane , displays what Heywood considers true virtue , in a Court which , though flawed , is the stronghold of sturdy Protestant morality ...
... merely formal piety , with no touch of human kindness . ( The Queen , who might justifiably harm Jane , displays what Heywood considers true virtue , in a Court which , though flawed , is the stronghold of sturdy Protestant morality ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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